While most historical studies merely scratch the surface of antebellum state rights and treat the doctrine as just one of many sectional differences between the North and South, this book focuses exclusively on state rights to reveal the doctrine's genesis, planks, and variations from colonial to Civil War times. It looks particularly at the doctrine within Virginia, examining how the concept of state rights became the backbone of the Old Dominion's understanding of the Union for at least seven decades. Part One looks at ...
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While most historical studies merely scratch the surface of antebellum state rights and treat the doctrine as just one of many sectional differences between the North and South, this book focuses exclusively on state rights to reveal the doctrine's genesis, planks, and variations from colonial to Civil War times. It looks particularly at the doctrine within Virginia, examining how the concept of state rights became the backbone of the Old Dominion's understanding of the Union for at least seven decades. Part One looks at contributing factors motivating Virginia's ideological attitudes toward state rights, revealing how and why state rights Anti-federalists recoiled from the expansive tendencies associated with central government power during the Constitutional debate and the Virginia ratification convention. Part Two examines the methodologies employed by concerned Virginians to maintain the currency of state rights in the face of nationalist threats to a southern interpretation of liberty, looking particularly at letters and newspaper comments from prominent Virginians like Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and William Grayson, among others.
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